When you tap Reply, a listing is shown of some default replies (canned messages), so that you can quickly reply to a message without typing anything.  You can add/remove these canned messages as needed by selecting Setup | Canned Messages from within a folder.  You can also choose Custom Reply to respond to the message and type whatever you like.

One nice thing about canned messages is that if someone sends you a message from the SkyTel website or using something like a PageWriter, they can setup custom responses that you can use.  For example, my wife can send me a message that says "What do you want for dinner?" with responses of "Pizza", "Chinese", etc.  When I receive the message, I tap Reply to bring up a list of her responses (they will have an * next to them) and select the appropriate response.  You could conceivably have entire conversations with someone without needing to type anything.

When you do want to type a message, BeamLink makes it easy.  Tap New Msg to bring up a blank message.  Tap the Lookup button to bring up the entries from Address Book, and then tap on the email address you wish to send to.  One nice thing that BeamLink does is give you a listing of email, page, work, and home numbers in the Lookup screen -- you can select and unselect which ones to list (I suggest you only list email addresses and maybe pager numbers).  You can tap on the hyphen to select multiple names, then tap Add to return to the message.  One thing that I should mention is that if you use the search (magnifying glass) function, it searches within words.  Searching for "mad" would turn up "Hromadka" and "Madison".

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